When he turned around, Leng Qingtang saw a grim side face with scars.
"Brother."
The man smiled calmly and respectfully called him.
Gu Di stared at the front, and there were not too many expressions on his uncoordinated face. He put on a sarcastic smile,
"If you don't grab the opportunity or kill Huanan Xin, aren't you going to be afraid of bad things in the future?"
Leng Qingtang looked calm and said,
"Huanan Xin is our nephew, Hua'er's cousin, and Jiyan's Brother. How can I kill him? Isn't the situation good now? He just wants to be the emperor and I just want to live in seclusion. We only mind our own business."
"Hehe."
Gu Di sneered and stared at Leng Qingtang with sharp eyes,
"You've been the Commander-in-chief of the Eastern Depot for more than ten years, but you're still as kind-hearted as a woman! Do you think he will be content to be an emperor and forget abo
At night, the wind blew and the wind bell rang gently.Gu Yunxi and her Brother sat on the wooden porch in front of the building and talked all night."All right, your hair is done. Look! Am I as good at it as Huanan He is?"Yu Xuanji put down the horn comb and said with a relaxed breath.Gu Yunxi sat on the low stool, raised the bronze mirror, looked at herself inside, turned around in surprise, and asked,"Brother, I'm going to bed soon. Others are taking off their makeup. Why are you combing my hair?"Yu Xuanji smiled silently and touched the girl's smooth and soft cheek with his fingers. He was gentle, with strong care and reluctance,"I've never done anything for you before. Let me comb your hair before I leave tomorrow morning.""What?"The girl was surprised and her eyelashes agitated, "Why are you leaving? No, I won't allow you to leave!"S
In the loud sounds of instruments, laughter and smiles flowed into the loft.Inside the loft, the people who were just looking at each other immediately appeared amazed in their eyes. Then they all ran outside to have a look.In the yard, there stood a lot of people.A group of servants rushed and ran, trying to carry several carts of treasure outside the yard to the porch.Princess Anhe dressed in a suit of Da Yi. She wore a scarlet garment embroidered with begonias, birds, and clouds, with a golden-brown sleeved over-dress as the coat.Her thick hair was bombed to a high bun, in the middle of which there was a hairpin shaped in golden phoenix. Besides, there were also some jade hair clasps. On the whole, she looked so elegant and beautiful.On the side of Princess Anhe, scores of guards of Udan stood. Besides, there were many familiar people."Master!"Cheng Wanli first r
It was on the border between western tribes and Udan.When the rite was finished, in the bustling sounds, Leng Qingtang tidied his hat up. Then he smiled and walked close to Gu Yunxi.Their wedding ceremony was a combination with the customs of the Central Plain and western tribes.In the morning, the chaperon walked to comb hairs and make up for Gu Yunxi. When the blessing time came, the new couple performed formal bows.All those processes were strictly in accordance with the customs of Da Yi.After they finished bowing, the wedding ceremony would process in accordance with the customs of western tribes.In Udan, when a girl got married, her head would not be covered by a red cloth. Instead, the girl would wear a coral-made mask with crystal fringes, covering the lower half of her face.Besides, in the banquet, the bride could not only take a seat together with the bridegroom but also
It was quiet in the bedroom for a while and Gu Yunxi was not accustomed to it. She poked her head out of the quilt, opened one eye naughtily, and looked around.On the corner table, there was only half of the candle and the wax dripped down.On the soft blanket in extremely good fortune on the ground, there were some hazelnuts, peanuts, cinnamon, and lotus seeds that rolled down from the bed.Indoor furnishings didn't change. Red window paper, red curtains, five-color incense packages, and other items added warmth and sweetness to the wedding room to the limit."Master... Darling..."Gu Yunxi was wrapped in brocade with only two snow-white delicate shoulders outside. She called to the outside of the door sweetly.No one responded.She saw the marks on her body when lowering her head. They were silently reminding her that something had changed.Thinking of Leng Qingtang's ma
Opening the door into the kitchen, Huanan Jiyan was the first to shout out with surprise,"Wow, it smells good! What kind of soup is it?"Gu Yunxi was carrying a small pot with two ears from the stove, which contained some thick paste mixed with malt sugar, rock sugar, and brown sugar.Beside her was a wooden case with a variety of washed seasonal fresh vegetables, sliced cold tofu that were frozen like honeycombs in the ice cellar, bean starch sheets, minced fish and shrimp, and other ingredients.Seeing Huanan Jiyan come, Gu Yunxi smiled,"You come when I'm thinking about you and Hua'er."Today was the third day of Leng Qingtang and her marriage, so Lu Qiange and Huanan Jiyan came to visit them.Huanan Jiyan observed the customs of the place. She wore her hair in braids and wore a rose-red pleated flared skirt.Just looking at above the hundred kinds of the diamond-shaped
It was October in the late autumn when there was more frost and dew.The wind in the early morning felt a little cool as it blew the branches of the flowers, making them shake and fall down to the ground as if the winding path had been covered with scattered broken gold.The royal Autumn Hunting Convention of Udan used to start off on the seventh day of the Shengtu Festival, which happened at the closest place to the royal palace ― the royal paddock on the west of the Eagle Eye Mountain.Every year, the officers in the paddock would let out all kinds of living beasts in the cages before King Solo's arrival, so that the King and his officers could kill the beasts to their hearts' content.Then, they would regard the amount of the hunted animals as the gist of the fortune of their development in the next year.Before nine in the morning, flags of five colors had been set up in the paddock. The baldachin was set so
"Uncle―"Lu Qiange and Huanan Jiyan rushed all the way to finally catch up with Leng Qingtang and his wife at the riverbank of Eagle Eye Mountain."Uncle, Tulia is just a savage. Please don't take his words seriously."Lu Qiange held his rein to stop the couple from going away as he hastily explained before his horse stopped. His glittering purple eyes fixed on Lu Qiange's face, dying for Lu's forgiveness and understanding.The horse puffed heavily as the sad man rotated two rounds."You may find a little offensive that my Father directly asked you to serve our country, but he just appreciates your talent so much that his words become too blunt. Hope you don't mind.""It's alright. You don't have to worry about me. I just thought that it was getting dark and everybody got tired, so I just wanted to go home early to have a rest."Leng Qingtang's features were cool and calm. One couldn't
Gu Yunxi woke up early and carried her big dark-green sack filled with necessities, and then she went out on horse with Leng Qingtang.The way to the border of western tribes from Ping Mount wasn't short. When they reached the business street, it was noon.Gu Yunxi secretly got happy as it was the perfect timing.The business street they were at was the largest concentration of trade on the border of Central Plains and the western tribes. It covered wide and took the main street as the central axis, extending for thousands of miles around, among which were thousands of lanes radiating in all directions. And the lanes were full of shops and stores. People from the Central Plains and the western tribes, as well as camel and horse teams always gathered here to sell all kinds of hard-to-get goods.Walking half a day from here to the east, one would arrive at Baishui Gate.Gu Yunxi and Leng Qingtang got off their hor